"fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication"". The independent Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News), in its April 2017 assessment of the newspaper, wrote: ""Has a strong conservative bias and has a poor track record with fact checkers"" and rated it as right bias, with factual reporting ""mixed"", but did not reduce it to the questionable sources/fake news category. ""Up and Running"" is a strip distributed by Knight Features and ""Fred Basset"" has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the ""Daily Mail"" since 8 July 1963. The long-running ""Teddy Tail"" cartoon strip, was"
"himself in a final McNugget choice) that he would choose to race and give up the McNuggets rather than continue as a ""psychic lazy dog"". Fred Basset (greyhound) Fred Basset (born 4 October 2004) is a greyhound dog which was owned and raced by Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy. The dog's name is taken from the comic strip character Fred Basset, whose strip featured regularly on the ""Hamish & Andy"" radio show. Since retiring from racing, Fred Basset has become an ambassador for greyhound adoption. Andy Lee was nominated for the 2006 ""Cleo"" Bachelor of the Year competition. Hamish"
"Fred Basset (greyhound) Fred Basset (born 4 October 2004) is a greyhound dog which was owned and raced by Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy. The dog's name is taken from the comic strip character Fred Basset, whose strip featured regularly on the ""Hamish & Andy"" radio show. Since retiring from racing, Fred Basset has become an ambassador for greyhound adoption. Andy Lee was nominated for the 2006 ""Cleo"" Bachelor of the Year competition. Hamish Blake took $860 (initially intended for a holiday for himself and his girlfriend) and won over $12000 for betting on Andy to win. Listeners suggestions"
"whimsical theme. Fred and his family still live in a pre-1990s era, with only a few hints to modern life, such as satnav and them finally buying a more modern car, as shown in the 2008 annual. Despite Fred's many years featured in newspapers around the world, he is not as well known as other cartoon characters. ""Fred Basset"" is currently syndicated in newspapers using the current Michael Martin strips and is available by email subscription or online direct from GoComics.com and others. Fred's owners are a middle-aged husband and wife, who are not given names in the strip. The"
"dogs and being a coward when more aggressive dogs are around. A small black Scottie (Scottish terrier) dog, Jock, is a regular companion, as well as Yorky (a Yorkshire terrier) in later years. A canine girlfriend, Fifi the poodle, appears too. An Alsatian dog, referred to as Brutus, is his adversary. Fred likes chasing cats but freely admits he would not know what to do with one if he caught it. ""Fred Basset"" features in many books worldwide, in the UK a long-running series of books reprints most of the newspaper strips. These are books number 1 (1963) to book"
"in animated Disney films. Syndicated comic strip Fred Basset has been a regular feature in newspapers since 1963. There is a Basset Hound in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series. The dog, Fred, was personally picked by lead actor Burt Reynolds because it refused to obey commands. In the TV series ""The Dukes of Hazzard"", a Basset Hound called Flash served as a companion to Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. In the early days of television, Elvis Presley famously sang ""Hound Dog"" to a disinterested top hat-wearing basset hound named Sherlock on ""The Steve Allen Show"" on July 1, 1956."
"Sunday strip appearing on March 22, 2009. In 1998, Basset began thinking about producing a second comic strip that had a more childlike quality to it. On Sunday May 7, 2000, ""Red and Rover"" appeared in newspapers for the first time. ""Red and Rover"" is a retro-feel comic strip about the unconditional love between a dog and his boy that captures the spirit and flavor of the early-1960s-to-mid-1970s. It is auto-biographical in nature. Originally distributed for the first ten years by The Washington Post Writers Group, ""Red and Rover"" is currently syndicated to over 200 papers by Universal Uclick. In"
"Rover place a flag on his uncle Jimmy's grave on Memorial Day. Red and Rover Red and Rover (often styled Red & Rover) is a daily syndicated comic strip by Brian Basset that debuted in 2000. Autobiographical in nature, ""Red & Rover"" is a retro-feel comic strip about the unconditional love between a dog and his boy that captures the spirit and flavor of the early-1960s to mid-1970s. ""Red and Rover"" has been nominated three times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip. In 2013, ""Red and Rover"" received the Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society."
"of surrealism is evident, with one early strip having his owners mention they thought the ""Fred Basset"" strip in the day's newspaper was ""quite amusing"" (cartoon 553 in book number 4). Later strips mention both Fred, his owners and passers-by being surreally aware of the newspaper ""Fred Basset"" strip and commenting as such, unaware that their own Fred is the character mentioned. Fred has a certain amount of snobbishness and appreciates the finer qualities of life, as shown clearly in the Alex Graham era strips, with attitudes of the time. He is equally at home misbehaving, being selfish, chasing other"
"Red and Rover Red and Rover (often styled Red & Rover) is a daily syndicated comic strip by Brian Basset that debuted in 2000. Autobiographical in nature, ""Red & Rover"" is a retro-feel comic strip about the unconditional love between a dog and his boy that captures the spirit and flavor of the early-1960s to mid-1970s. ""Red and Rover"" has been nominated three times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip. In 2013, ""Red and Rover"" received the Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society. Basset had been producing the comic strip ""Adam"" (now known as ""Adam@home"")"
"Book. This breed differs in being straighter and longer in the leg and having shorter ears. Basset Hounds have been featured in popular culture many times. Some artists, such as director Mamoru Oshii and webcomic artist Scott Kurtz regularly feature their pet Bassets in their work. On February 27, 1928, ""Time"" magazine featured a basset hound on the front cover. The accompanying story was about the 52nd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden as if observed by the basset hound puppy. Many cartoon dogs are based on the Basset, such as Droopy, with several Bassets appearing"
"as such. A book published during 1988, ""Fred Basset 25 Years"", a similar compilation, is considered its forerunner. Colour strips as used in ""The Mail On Sunday"" were added from book 36 during 1984. This backlogged the black and white strips, and by book 41 during 1989 they were still using 1984 strips. The next book 42 jumped from book 41 ending with strip 6483 to strip 8159 dated 1990. The missing cartoons remain unpublished since the original newspaper strips. The distinctive ""Fred"" handwriting font was supplied by Les Hulme until the early 2000s. A variant of the font is"
"waste, he is temporarily given super-powers. He salvages a large barrel and keeps a small vial of it on his person, in case of an emergency. The strip often featured real events and local celebrities from Louisville and Kentucky as backdrops, or, occasionally, as supporting characters in storylines. Also featured was Lance's Basset hound Cleo, based on Don Rosa's own dog of the same name and breed. The Adventures of Captain Kentucky The Adventures of Captain Kentucky was a weekly comic-strip by Don Rosa, in the Saturday edition of the local newspaper Louisville Times. It ran from October 6, 1979"
"Teddy Tail Teddy Tail was a British newspaper comic strip about a cartoon mouse featured in ""The Daily Mail"" from 5 April 1915. It was the first ""daily"" cartoon strip in a British newspaper (being also the first to use speech balloon rather than captions), The character survived until the 1960s with several artists drawing newspaper strips and the varied annuals. Such was his popularity that other newspapers created their own cartoon characters, the Daily Express with ""Rupert Bear"" and the Daily Mirror with ""Pip, Squeak and Wilfred"". The first variant of Teddy Tail was drawn by Charles Folkard (1878–1963)"
"was published in September 2009. The 2010 Annual, released in October 2010, is unusually entitled ""Fred Basset Yearbook 2010–2011"", in an attempt to keep the book selling in 2011. This follows a tradition of annuals since the 1930s which were dated the next year to stop buyers thinking it was an older edition. A special 50th anniversary annual, Fred Basset Celebrating 50 Years was published in 2013 by Summersdale Publishers. J Salmon Ltd currently print a Fred Basset calendar displaying twelve cartoons drawn by Michael Martin. Fred Basset, despite being a comic strip character, was read on radio regularly by"
"Alfred Bestall Alfred Edmeades ""Fred"" Bestall, MBE (14 December 1892 – 15 January 1986) wrote and illustrated ""Rupert Bear"" for the London ""Daily Express"", from 1935 to 1965. Bestall was born in Mandalay, Burma. As a schoolboy, Bestall attended Rydal Mount in Colwyn Bay from 1904 to 1911. He won a scholarship to the Birmingham Central School (later College) of Art and later attended the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts in Camden. He served in World War I in the British Army in 1915 in Flanders, where he transported troops in red double-decker London buses. Following the war,"
"Alfred Bestall Alfred Edmeades ""Fred"" Bestall, MBE (14 December 1892 – 15 January 1986) wrote and illustrated ""Rupert Bear"" for the London ""Daily Express"", from 1935 to 1965. Bestall was born in Mandalay, Burma. As a schoolboy, Bestall attended Rydal Mount in Colwyn Bay from 1904 to 1911. He won a scholarship to the Birmingham Central School (later College) of Art and later attended the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts in Camden. He served in World War I in the British Army in 1915 in Flanders, where he transported troops in red double-decker London buses. Following the war,"
"Rasher (comics) Rasher is a British comic strip published in the comics magazine ""The Beano"", featuring Dennis the Menace's pet pig Rasher. Early episodes of the strip also featured Rasher's family, such his brother Hamlet, his sister Virginia Ham, Uncle Crackling and Little Piglet, who were all introduced in the first episode. It was initially drawn by David Sutherland and, in its first iteration, ran from 1984 until 1988. Rasher had earlier made his first appearance in ""The Beano"" in issue 1920 (5 May 1979) in the ""Dennis the Menace and Gnasher"" strip. From issue 3480 (25 April 2009), older"
"Daily Bugle The Daily Bugle (at one time The DB) is a fictional New York City tabloid newspaper appearing as a plot element in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The ""Daily Bugle"" is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe, most prominently in Spider-Man comic titles and their derivative media. The newspaper first appeared in ""Fantastic Four"" #2 (January 1962), and its offices in ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" #1 (March 1963). The ""Daily Bugle"" was first featured on film in the 2002 film ""Spider-Man"". The fictional newspaper is meant to be a pastiche of both the New York ""Daily"
"Rupert Fawcett Rupert Fawcett is a British cartoonist and writer, who is best known for his critically acclaimed comic strips, ""Fred"" (produced since 1989), ""Daddy"" and ""Off The Leash"". ""Fred"" was published in Midweek Magazine for two years, then The Mail on Sunday for four years. The success of ""Fred"" led to the sale of over nine million Fred greetings cards in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and a bestselling range of merchandise. Rupert has appeared on Good Morning Britain, The Big Breakfast, Midweek and numerous other TV and radio programmes. His current projects include ""Off The Leash"" animation"
"School"" and ""The Barnyard Club"" ran briefly in ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". In the ""New York Herald"" ran ""Buddy Tucker"", about a bellhop, and ""Pore Lil Mose"", the first strip with an African-American title character—a prankster portrayed in a heavily stereotyped manner. Outcault introduced Buster Brown to the pages of the ""Herald"" on May 4, 1902, about a mischievous, well-to-do boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and his pit-bull terrier Tige. The strip and characters were more popular than the Yellow Kid, and Outcault licensed the name for a wide number of consumer products, such as children's shoes from the"
"Lassie had a Basset friend named Pokey early in the ""Lassie"" television series. Other famous TV Bassets are the wisecracking Cleo from ""The People's Choice"", Columbo's dog Dog, and the sheriff's dog Flash in ""The Dukes of Hazzard"". Basset Hounds are often used as advertising logos. The logo for Hush Puppies brand shoes prominently features a Basset Hound whose real name is Jason. Basset hounds are occasionally referred to as ""hush puppies"" for that reason. A basset hound also serves as the companion to the lonely Maytag Man in Maytag appliance advertisements. Tidewater Petroleum advertised its ""Flying A"" gasoline using"
"Tourtel, an assistant editor of the ""Daily Express"". Tourtel devised Rupert Bear shortly after the end of World War I, in 1920, when the ""Daily Express"" was in competition with ""The Daily Mail"" and its then popular comic strip “Teddy Tail” (featuring a mouse called “Teddy Tail”), as well as with the comic strip “Pip, Squeak and Wilfred” (respectively, these are the names of a dog, penguin, and rabbit) in the ""Daily Mirror"". Each panel of Tourtel's comic strip story was accompanied by a narrative in rhymed verse. These are the very first (""Daily Express"", 8 November 1920): The title"
"drew large crowds, however even with the support of Mike Whitney and hundreds of Fred Basset fans, he could not achieve a podium place and finished fourth. Fred's celebrity status meant that he attracted media attention even when he failed to win. In the 2007 Good Friday Appeal race, Fred won against two other greyhounds. Hamish and Andy donated half of his winnings to the 2007 Good Friday Appeal. In June 2007 Fred had a bad fall in a race and was forced out of racing until he recovered. Fred Basset last raced on 12 March 2008. He started in"
"often: The April Fools' Day 1972 issue included a paper on the diseases of ""Brunus edwardii"": a description of lost limbs and thinning hair suffered by an animal whose Latin name means ""brown"" and ""Edward"". The paper was accompanied by sketches of a teddy bear resembling Winnie the Pooh. The journal is mentioned and appears regularly in the BBC series ""All Creatures Great and Small"". In the episode ""The Call of the Wild"", the character based on James Herriot's assistant Brian Nettleton, has an article published in the ""Record"", much to the chagrin of Herriot's partner Donald Sinclair. Veterinary Record"
"himself with time left over in his 8-hour work day, filled the bottom of the strip with slapstick drawings of the upstairs family's mouse preying upon the Dingbats' cat. This ""basement strip"" grew into something much larger than the original cartoon. It became a daily comic strip with a title (running vertically down the side of the page) on October 28, 1913 and a black and white full-page Sunday cartoon on April 23, 1916. Due to the objections of editors, who didn't think it was suitable for the comics sections, ""Krazy Kat"" originally appeared in the Hearst papers' art and"
"beginning in 1970. His work also appeared in ""Playboy"", ""Punch"" and ""Fast Company"", among other publications. He was a signature artist whose rounded, elegant, sparsely detailed style evoked both the traditional world of a James Thurber and the contemporary sensibility of a Roz Chast. Barsotti's work features a simple repertory including a nameless, lovable pooch and a monarch whose kingdom consists of a guard and a telephone. His work in comic strips included: In 1992, his dog character was adopted as a logo by the office supplies company Niceday Ltd, which was taken over the French company Guilbert, leading to"
"(1981). Orlando Busino Orlando Busino (born October 10, 1926 in Binghamton, New York) is a US artist whose cartoons have appeared in McCalls, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, and many other magazines. Among his creations are ""Gus,"" the long-running series of cartoons about a large dog that has appeared in Boys' Life magazine. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Busino grew up in Binghamton, New York. His interest in cartooning started at the age of 9 and by age 14 he sold his first cartoon and gag to the New York Daily Mirror. Busino also won cartoon contests in"
"57 races, for 8 first placings, 11 seconds and 13 thirds. His total prizemoney was $19,720. Fred Basset now makes promotional and celebrity appearances at various events. He is also an ambassador for the Greyhound Adoption Program. Fred Bassett enjoys chicken McNuggets, and is referred to as ""the McNugget-loving champion"". Hamish and Andy tried to use Fred's taste for McNuggets to predict the future. Before the two football grand finals of 2006 (NRL and AFL) were played, the boys performed two experiments. On one paper plate they wrote Broncos and on another they wrote Storm (these being the two teams"
"Orlando Busino Orlando Busino (born October 10, 1926 in Binghamton, New York) is a US artist whose cartoons have appeared in McCalls, Reader's Digest, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, and many other magazines. Among his creations are ""Gus,"" the long-running series of cartoons about a large dog that has appeared in Boys' Life magazine. He lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Busino grew up in Binghamton, New York. His interest in cartooning started at the age of 9 and by age 14 he sold his first cartoon and gag to the New York Daily Mirror. Busino also won cartoon contests in Open"
"strips for Christmas or their Summer holiday with no continuation. Again, later Michael Martin strips do follow on for a few days, as with a Birthday Party mentioned in the 1997 book. The more recent strips have occasional follow-on stories such as a Summer holiday, or buying a new car. The first copyright dates (then for Associated Newspapers) were added to the cartoon strips during 1969. Fred Basset himself seems to have been born during 1959 from comments in the earliest cartoons, and in true cartoon style, seems not to age. Fred's observations can be wry and a certain amount"
"current social and political subjects (including sports and entertainment) published in a daily or weekly newspaper or regularly published periodical (including Internet publications) in the United States. They are administered by the Journalism Department of Columbia College Chicago. John Fischetti John R. Fischetti (September 27, 1916 – November 18, 1980) was an editorial cartoonist for the ""New York Herald Tribune"" and the ""Chicago Daily News"". He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society. Fischetti was born in Brooklyn, New York, where his Italian father was a barber. As a teenager"
"of leading magazines, Orlando Busino has a long-running series of cartoons called ""Gus"" in Boys' Life. About the antics of a large white dog named Gus, the cartoon first appeared in Boys' Life in January 1970. It took over the honor spot on the ""Think & Grin"" page and has remained there ever since. Gus appeared on the cover of Boys' Life in December 1981. He received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1965, 1967, and 1968 for his work. His cartoons have been anthologized in two books, ""Good Boy! and Other Animal Cartoons"" (1980) and ""Oh, Gus!"""